Improvement in washing-machines



' UNTTED STATES PATENT EETCE LEWIS GOOLEY, OF APPLETON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,472, dated May 16, 1876; application filed March 15, 1876.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS CooLEY, of Appleton, in the county of Outagamie and State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improvement in Washing-Machines, of which the followingarrangement, and combination of the several` parts, all as more fully hereinafter explained. Figure lisa perspective view of the washer fitted in a tub, a portion of which is broken away to show it. Y Fig. Zis a bottom perspee. tive View of the rubber.

Fig-3 is a detached perspective View of the false bottom and standard. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the same at .r zc.

In the drawing, A represents a tub, in the bottom of which is placed a removable false bottom, B, of wood, having a series of ribs, a, radiating from a central hub, c, covered with tin, zinc, or othensheet metal that is not lia*y ble to corrode or oxidize. The ribs c are covered with sheet metal ofthe same kind, as at c', as well as the .intermediatesurfaces of the false bottom. The hub projects above the plane' of the ribs. lB is a circular rubber, also of wood, with a metal-covered hub, c', pro jecting from the center of its under side, from which hub the ribs b radiate. These ribs `and the entire under surface of the rubber are covered withsheet metal, as seen atb. G is a Wooden standard, rising from the center of the hub i'n ,the bottom board, which is bored to receive it, and it is secured in theeye by a Wood-screw inserted in its lower end, with a large washer interposed between the head of the screw and the bottom B. The hub ofthe lever-h andle, connected by two posts, f f, with the top ofthe rubber. This handle has a hole bored in its middle to slip over the standard', 'I

which hole is bushedwith a sheet-metal thimble to reduce friction. The hubs, ,at .their meeting ends, project beyond the faces of the ribs, and prevent them from coming actually into contact, and thus prevent the tearing of the fabrics. Being smooth, the rubbing surfaces can Wear the fabrics but very little, and this makes the device easy to operate.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination of the movablebottom B, having the radial ribs a, the hub c, and its face covered entirely with sheet metal, the rubber B', provided with the radial ribs b, the hub c,' and sheetmetal -covered face, the standard O, and handle G', alll constructed and arranged Ysubstantially as described and shown. A Y

i LEWIS OOOLEY.

Witnesses:

S. P. WING, JoHVNBRrLL. 

